2nd Bundesliga 1977/78

2nd Bundesliga 1977/78
master	Arminia Bielefeld (north) SV Darmstadt 98 (south)
Climbers	Arminia Bielefeld , SV Darmstadt 98 , 1. FC Nuremberg
Relegation ↑	1. FC Nuremberg , Rot-Weiss Essen
Relegated	SC Herford , 1. FC Bocholt , OSC Bremerhaven , Schwarz-Weiß Essen (north), FC Bayern Hof , VfR OLI Bürstadt , Kickers Würzburg , FK Pirmasens (south)
Teams	2 × 20
Games	2 × 380 + 2 relegation games
Gates	2,493  (ø 3.28 per game)
spectator	4,125,477  (ø 5428 per game)
Top scorer	Horst Hrubesch ( Rot-Weiss Essen ) (North) Peter Cestonaro ( SV Darmstadt 98 ), Emanuel Günther ( Karlsruher SC ) (South)
← 2nd Bundesliga 1976/77 2nd Bundesliga 1978/79 →
↑ Bundesliga 1977/78 North Oberliga Berlin 1977/78 Oberliga Nord 1977/78 Association League Middle Rhine 1977/78 Association League Niederrhein 1977/78 Association League Westphalia 1977/78 South: Amateur League Rhineland 1977/78 Amateur League Saarland 1977/78 1st Amateur League Bavaria 1977/78 1st Amateur League Southwest 1977/78 Baden League 1977/78 1st amateur league Hessen 1977/78 1. Amateur League North Württemberg 1977/78 1st Black Forest-Bodensee amateur league 1977/78 1. Amateur League South Baden 1977/78 ↓

The 2nd Bundesliga 1977/78 was played in two seasons of 20 clubs each. The two relay champions Arminia Bielefeld (North relay) and SV Darmstadt 98 (South relay) were promoted directly to the 1st Bundesliga. As the third promoted 1. FC Nürnberg prevailed in the relegation against Rot-Weiss Essen and followed as the third promoted to the upper house.

TSV 1860 Munich , 1. FC Saarbrücken (in the south season) and FC St. Pauli (in the north season) got out of the 1. Bundesliga and played in the second division the following season.

North

Arminia Bielefeld secured the championship title of the 2nd Bundesliga North in the 1977/78 season with a narrow lead of one point over Rot-Weiss Essen . Six years after the forced relegation as part of the Bundesliga scandal, this meant returning to the top division. Rot-Weiss Essen failed in the relegation to 1. FC Nürnberg , the second in the 2. Bundesliga South. So the direct return to promotion after relegation from the 1st Bundesliga was missed. The second relegated, Tennis Borussia Berlin , ended the season in tenth place in the table without any chance of promotion.

With Schwarz-Weiß Essen , a founding member of the 2nd Bundesliga was relegated to the Oberliga Nordrhein after four years . Other relegated teams were the two previous year's climbers 1. FC Bocholt and OSC Bremerhaven , as well as SC Herford .

Closing table

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Arminia Bielefeld	38	23	5	10	74:40	+34	51:25
02.	Rot-Weiss Essen (A)	38	21st	8th	9	82:49	+33	50:26
03.	Prussia Munster	38	18th	13	7th	65:47	+18	49:27
04th	SC Fortuna Cologne	38	19th	10	9	79:62	+17	48:28
05.	Hannover 96	38	19th	5	14th	68:57	+11	43:33
06th	SG Wattenscheid 09	38	16	9	13	76:65	+11	41:35
07th	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	38	15th	11	12	75:64	+11	41:35
08th.	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	38	16	7th	15th	58:51	+ 07	39:37
09.	SG Union Solingen	38	13	13	12	60:60	± 00	39:37
10.	Tennis Borussia Berlin (A)	38	12	12	14th	58:57	+ 01	36:40
11.	Wuppertal SV	38	12	12	14th	56:59	- 03	36:40
12.	Westfalia Herne	38	12	11	15th	53:59	- 06	35:41
13.	Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid (N)	38	12	11	15th	59:75	−16	35:41
14th	Alemannia Aachen	38	10	14th	14th	51:62	−11	34:42
15th	SV Arminia Hanover	38	12	10	16	63:78	−15	34:42
16.	VfL Osnabrück	38	9	15th	14th	56:62	- 06	33:43
17th	SC Herford	38	12	9	17th	51:58	- 07th	33:43
18th	1. FC Bocholt (N)	38	13	6th	19th	65:70	- 05th	32:44
19th	OSC Bremerhaven (N)	38	11	10	17th	61:88	−27	32:44
20th	Black and white food	38	4th	11	23	45:92	−47	19:57

Legend
	Promoted to the Bundesliga
	Participant in the relegation games to the Bundesliga
	Relegated to the upper league
(A)	Relegated from the Bundesliga
(N)	Promoted from the major or association league

Crosstab

The cross table shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

North 1977/78
01.	Arminia Bielefeld		2: 2	2-0	2: 4	2-0	2-0	3: 1	1: 3	3-0	4: 1	3: 1	2-0	4-0	2-0	6-0	3: 3	2-0	2: 3	4: 1	3-0
02.	Red and white food	2-0		4: 4	2: 1	3: 1	1: 1	1-0	3: 2	2-0	4: 3	6-0	1: 2	3: 1	3: 1	4-0	4: 1	2-0	4: 1	6: 1	4-0
03.	Prussia Munster	0: 1	2-0		3: 1	3: 1	1-0	1: 4	0: 1	1: 1	0-0	1-0	2: 2	4: 1	1: 1	3: 2	3-0	2: 1	3: 2	3-0	3-0
04th	SC Fortuna Cologne	0: 2	3: 1	4: 3		3: 2	2: 2	3: 2	1-0	2: 2	2: 1	2: 1	3: 1	2-0	1: 1	3: 1	1: 1	3: 1	4: 2	4: 1	3: 2
05.	Hannover 96	1-0	0: 1	0-0	3: 1		4: 1	2-0	1: 3	2: 2	1-0	1: 1	1: 2	2: 1	1: 1	1: 2	4: 2	3: 1	2: 1	1: 2	3: 1
06th	SG Wattenscheid 09	0: 2	3: 2	3-0	5: 2	0: 1		2: 5	3: 3	3: 1	4: 2	0: 2	2: 2	3: 1	3-0	3: 2	5: 3	3-0	1: 1	2: 2	4-0
07th	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	0: 2	1-0	2: 3	1-0	1: 3	2: 2		1: 1	1: 1	2-0	3: 3	4: 1	3: 2	5: 2	1: 2	0-0	3: 1	3: 2	7: 1	3: 1
08th.	SV Bayer 04 Leverkusen	1: 2	1: 2	1-0	1: 1	1-0	0-0	7-0		0: 2	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	0: 4	0: 1	4-0	0: 2	0-0	2-0	3: 1	2: 1
09.	SG Union Solingen	0-0	1: 1	3: 4	0: 3	3: 2	5: 2	0-0	2: 3		2-0	1: 1	2: 1	3: 1	3-0	5: 3	1: 1	3: 3	2: 1	2-0	2-0
10.	Tennis Borussia Berlin	3: 2	1: 2	1: 2	1: 3	3: 2	1-0	1: 1	1-0	3-0		0-0	2: 1	1: 1	2: 2	6-0	0-0	3: 2	1-0	3: 1	1-0
11.	Wuppertal SV	3: 1	2-0	2: 3	1: 1	2: 3	3: 2	1: 1	4: 3	2-0	1: 1		3-0	2: 2	3-0	2: 1	1-0	3: 1	2-0	1: 2	1: 3
12.	Westfalia Herne	2-0	2-0	0-0	2: 2	2: 4	2: 1	0: 2	4: 1	1-0	2-0	1: 1		3-0	0: 1	2: 3	3: 1	1: 2	2: 1	3: 2	1: 1
13.	Rot-Weiß Lüdenscheid	1: 4	3: 2	1: 1	1: 1	2: 5	3: 2	1-0	3: 1	1-0	2: 1	3: 3	0-0		2: 2	1: 1	2: 4	3-0	4: 2	4: 1	1: 1
14th	Alemannia Aachen	1: 2	0: 1	0-0	3-0	1: 1	0: 1	3: 3	1-0	3: 3	1: 4	1-0	1: 1	3: 4		1-0	3: 2	5: 3	3-0	0: 1	4: 1
15th	SV Arminia Hanover	0-0	0-0	1: 1	2: 1	0: 1	3: 4	2: 2	1: 1	3: 1	1: 1	3-0	2-0	0-0	3: 3		2-0	0: 1	6: 4	3: 4	5: 1
16.	VfL Osnabrück	0-0	1: 1	0: 2	2: 2	1: 3	3: 1	1: 2	3: 2	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	2: 2	2-0	1: 1	3-0		0: 1	2: 1	2: 2	6: 1
17th	SC Herford	2-0	1: 1	1: 1	1: 4	1: 2	1: 2	3: 2	0-0	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1	2-0	4-0	0-0	0: 2	3: 1		3-0	1: 1	3-0
18th	1. FC Bocholt	5-0	4: 3	1: 1	3: 1	3-0	0: 2	2: 2	2: 1	0: 1	4: 3	1-0	2-0	3-0	3-0	2: 2	0-0	0: 2		3: 1	3: 1
19th	OSC Bremerhaven	0: 3	0: 1	2: 3	1: 3	1-0	1: 1	2: 4	1: 2	5: 2	3: 3	0-0	2: 2	2: 2	2: 1	4: 1	1: 1	2: 1	3: 2		2: 1
20th	Black and white food	0: 1	3: 3	1: 1	2: 2	3: 4	0: 3	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1	2: 2	4: 2	2: 2	0: 1	0-0	2: 4	3: 2	0: 3	1: 1	3: 3

List of goalscorers

The top scorer of the North season was Horst Hrubesch from Rot-Weiss Essen with 41 goals.

	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1.		Horst Hrubesch	Red and white food	41
2.		Friedhelm Funkel	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	25th
3.		Karl-Heinz Mrosko	SV Arminia Hanover	24
4th		Jan Mattsson	Bayer 05 Uerdingen	21st
5.		Werner Lenz	SG Union Solingen	19th
6th		Volker Graul	SC Fortuna Cologne	18th
		Heinz-Josef Kehr	Tennis Borussia Berlin	18th

Promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga North

The following qualified for the coming season: SC Viktoria Köln , Wacker 04 Berlin , DSC Wanne-Eickel and Holstein Kiel .

see article: Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga - 1978/79

south

The 1977/78 season of the 2nd Bundesliga South ended with the sovereign first-time promotion of SV Darmstadt 98 to the 1st Bundesliga . The 1. FC Nuremberg , then still the German record champion, managed also the rise as runners after in the relegation games against North Second Rot-Weiss Essen 1: run up 2: 0 and the second This ended a nine-year period in the second division for the club , which had begun in 1969 after the remarkable decline as the reigning champion . The Karlsruher SC , as relegated from the 1st Bundesliga, clearly missed the promotion .

With FC Bayern Hof and FK Pirmasens , two founding members of the 2nd Bundesliga South were relegated after four years. You have not returned to second class to this day. The Pirmasens put up a remarkable negative mark in German professional football with 6-70 points in just one win (3-0 at home against FSV Frankfurt on matchday 28). The newcomers Kickers Würzburg and VfR OLI Bürstadt were relegated, the latter succeeded in direct recovery in the following season, the former in 2016.

Closing table

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	SV Darmstadt 98	38	26th	6th	6th	90: 043	+47	58:18
02.	1. FC Nuremberg	38	22nd	9	7th	75: 046	+29	53:23
03.	FC 08 Homburg	38	20th	9	9	65: 045	+20	49:27
04th	SpVgg Bayreuth	38	22nd	4th	12	79: 050	+29	48:28
05.	Kickers Offenbach	38	18th	10	10	88: 054	+34	46:30
06th	SpVgg Fürth	38	19th	8th	11	73: 042	+31	46:30
07th	Karlsruher SC (A)	38	20th	5	13	76: 054	+22	45:31
08th.	SV Chio Waldhof 07	38	15th	12	11	76: 050	+26	42:34
09.	Wormatia Worms (N)	38	16	10	12	63: 056	+ 07	42:34
10.	Stuttgart Kickers	38	14th	12	12	63: 071	- 08	40:36
11.	FV 04 Würzburg	38	13	12	13	52: 053	- 01	38:38
12.	Eintracht Trier	38	14th	7th	17th	58: 064	- 06	35:41
13.	Freiburg FC (N)	38	12	11	15th	58: 071	−13	35:41
14th	FC Augsburg	38	12	10	16	57: 054	+ 03	34:42
15th	FSV Frankfurt	38	11	12	15th	54: 062	- 08	34:42
16.	KSV Baunatal	38	13	8th	17th	55: 080	−25	34:42
17th	FC Bayern Hof	38	13	7th	18th	45: 062	−17	33:43
18th	VfR OLI Bürstadt (N)	38	10	5	23	48: 068	−20	25:51
19th	Wurzburger Kickers (N)	38	4th	9	25th	38: 093	−55	17:59
20th	FK Pirmasens	38	1	4th	33	25: 120	−95	06:70

Legend
	Promoted to the Bundesliga
	Participant in the relegation games to the Bundesliga
	Relegated to the upper league
(A)	Relegated from the Bundesliga
(N)	Newcomers from the amateur league

Crosstab

The cross table shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column and the visiting team in the top row.

South 1977/78
01.	SV Darmstadt 98		2-0	3: 1	1-0	4: 1	2-0	3: 2	0: 4	4-0	2: 2	2-0	3: 1	6: 1	3: 2	2: 1	6: 1	4: 1	3: 1	6-0	2-0
02.	1. FC Nuremberg	6: 4		2-0	3: 2	2-0	2: 1	2: 1	1: 3	3: 1	4: 1	3: 1	3-0	3: 1	2: 1	1: 1	2-0	3-0	2: 1	4: 1	2-0
03.	FC 08 Homburg	1: 1	2: 2		1-0	1: 1	2: 1	3-0	3: 2	4-0	0: 2	3: 2	3-0	6: 1	2-0	2: 1	5-0	2-0	1-0	1-0	4: 2
04th	SpVgg Bayreuth	3-0	1-0	2-0		3: 3	3: 1	3-0	2: 2	5-0	5: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2-0	0: 2	3-0	4: 1	3-0	5: 1	2-0	7: 1
05.	Kickers Offenbach	1: 1	0-0	1: 1	3: 1		3: 1	2: 1	3: 1	2: 1	7-0	4-0	4-0	3-0	2-0	0-0	5-0	3-0	7-0	5-0	4: 1
06th	SpVgg Fürth	2-0	0: 2	2: 3	0-0	3: 2		2-0	3: 1	3: 2	4: 1	3-0	2-0	6: 2	0-0	4-0	2-0	4: 1	4-0	2-0	5-0
07th	Karlsruher SC	2-0	3: 1	2: 3	4: 1	5: 3	1: 1		2: 1	0: 2	3-0	3-0	2: 2	1: 2	2-0	4: 3	3: 2	3-0	4-0	6-0	1-0
08th.	SV Chio Waldhof 07	0-0	2: 1	0: 2	1: 2	4: 3	0-0	0: 1		1: 2	2: 2	6-0	3: 1	3-0	4: 4	2-0	5-0	3: 2	4-0	1: 1	4: 2
09.	Wormatia worms	2: 2	2: 2	0-0	4-0	3-0	3: 1	3: 2	1: 1		2: 1	1: 2	6: 3	1: 1	0-0	1: 1	4: 1	2: 1	2: 1	3-0	2-0
10.	Stuttgart Kickers	1: 4	3: 3	0: 1	4-0	2: 2	0: 4	1: 1	1: 1	1-0		3: 1	1-0	2: 2	2: 1	4: 1	3: 1	2-0	2: 1	2: 2	3-0
11.	FV 04 Würzburg	0-0	0: 1	1: 1	2-0	4-0	1: 2	2-0	1: 1	3: 2	1: 1		2-0	2: 2	3: 2	2: 2	1: 1	2-0	0-0	4-0	4-0
12.	Eintracht Trier	1: 2	2: 2	4-0	0: 2	3-0	2: 1	1: 4	3: 2	2-0	1-0	1: 1		1-0	2: 2	0-0	1: 1	5: 1	2: 1	0-0	5-0
13.	Freiburg FC	0: 3	0-0	3: 2	2: 2	3: 3	1: 1	2: 2	2: 1	1: 2	1-0	2-0	3: 1		2: 2	2: 1	3: 2	3: 2	0: 1	4: 1	5-0
14th	FC Augsburg	0: 3	0-0	4-0	1: 2	1: 1	0-0	2: 3	0: 1	2: 1	2: 3	1: 1	3-0	1-0		5-0	1-0	1: 1	2: 1	3: 2	8-0
15th	FSV Frankfurt	4-0	1: 1	2: 2	3: 1	1: 1	0-0	2: 1	0: 1	1: 1	3: 1	1: 2	3: 2	1-0	3-0		2: 1	2: 1	3: 3	3-0	4-0
16.	KSV Baunatal	0: 1	1: 5	0-0	3: 2	2: 1	2: 1	1-0	2: 2	1: 3	3: 3	1-0	3-0	2: 2	2-0	4: 2		1: 1	2-0	4: 1	3: 2
17th	FC Bayern Hof	0: 1	4-0	1-0	2: 1	1-0	3: 1	2: 3	1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	1: 2	3: 2	1-0	2: 1	1: 2		2-0	2: 1	1: 1
18th	VfR OLI Bürstadt	1: 2	1: 2	1-0	1: 3	0: 1	2: 2	0: 1	0-0	1-0	0: 1	0: 3	1: 2	0-0	4: 1	2-0	3: 1	0: 1		3-0	2: 1
19th	Kickers Wurzburg	0: 2	3-0	1: 2	0: 1	3: 4	0: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	3: 4	2: 2	0: 3	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1	2: 2	1: 2	2: 6		2-0
20th	FK Pirmasens	1: 6	0: 3	1: 1	1: 2	1: 3	1: 3	1: 2	0: 5	1: 2	2: 2	0: 1	0: 4	0: 2	0: 1	3-0	1: 2	0: 2	0: 9	2: 2

List of goalscorers

The top scorer of the season south were Peter Cestonaro from SV Darmstadt 98 and Emanuel Günther from Karlsruher SC with 27 goals each .

	Nat.	player	society	Gates
1.		Peter Cestonaro	SV Darmstadt 98	27
		Emanuel Günther	Karlsruher SC	27
3.		Uwe Sommerer	SpVgg Bayreuth	25th
4th		Georg Beichle	FC Augsburg	22nd
		Werner Seubert	Wormatia worms	22nd
6th		Manfred Drexler	SV Darmstadt 98	21st
7th		Erich Unger	SpVgg Fürth	20th

Promotion round to the 2nd Bundesliga South

The following qualified for the coming season: Borussia Neunkirchen , SC Freiburg , FC Hanau 93 , MTV Ingolstadt

see article: Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga - 1978/79

Promotion games to the 1st Bundesliga

1. FC Nürnberg won the first leg at their home stadium against Rot-Weiss Essen 1-0. A final 2-2 draw in the Georg-Melches-Stadion was enough for promotion to the first division.

Second south	total	Second north	First leg	Return leg
1. FC Nuremberg	3: 2	Red and white food	1-0	2: 2

First leg

pairing	1. FC Nuremberg - Rot-Weiss Essen
Result	1: 0 (0: 0)
date	Friday , June 2. 1978
Stadion	Municipal Stadium , Nuremberg
spectator	42,000
referee	Volker Roth ( Salzgitter )
Gates	1-0 Hans Walitza (79th)
1. FC Nuremberg	Manfred Müller - Horst Weyerich - Günter Dämpfling , Bertram Beierlorzer , Peter Stocker - Norbert Eder , Reinhold Schöll (83rd Jürgen Täuber ), Slobodan Petrović - Dieter Lieberwirth , Hans Walitza , Alfred Steinkirchner (52nd Miodrag Živaljević ) Trainer: Werner Kern
Red and white food	Heinz Blasey - Horst Hrubesch , Hartmut Huhse - Heinz Martens , Peter Ehmke , Detlef Wiemers - Jürgen Kaminsky (87th Wolfgang Patzke ), Hans Dörre (77th Dietmar Klinger ), Hans-Jürgen Sperlich , Günter Fürhoff - Frank Mill Trainer: Klaus Quinkert
yellow cards	none - Huhse , Wiemers , Hrubesch , Sperlich
References	none - Huhse (82.)

Return leg

pairing	Rot-Weiss Essen - 1. FC Nuremberg
Result	2: 2 (0: 1)
date	Friday , June 9. 1978
Stadion	Georg Melches Stadium , Essen
spectator	32,500 (sold out)
referee	Günter Linn ( Altendiez )
Gates	0: 1 Slobodan Petrović (29th) 1: 1 Peter Ehmke (49th) 1: 2 Hans Walitza (58th) 2: 2 Horst Hrubesch (59th, penalty kick )
Red and white food	Heinz Blasey - Dietmar Klinger - Siegfried Bönighausen , Peter Ehmke , Detlef Wiemers - Hans Dörre (42nd Wolfgang Patzke ), Hans-Jürgen Sperlich , Jürgen Kaminsky (87th Heinz Martens ), Günter Fürhoff - Horst Hrubesch , Frank Mill Trainer: Klaus Quinkert
1. FC Nuremberg	Manfred Müller - Horst Weyerich - Günter Dämpfling , Peter Stocker , Bertram Beierlorzer - Norbert Eder , Reinhold Schöll , Slobodan Petrović , Dieter Lieberwirth - Miodrag Živaljević , Hans Walitza Trainer: Werner Kern
yellow cards	Hrubesch , Fürhoff - Schöll , Walitza , Beierlorzer , Živaljević
particularities	Horst Hrubesch failed in the 83rd minute with another penalty kick to Manfred Müller

Climbers

1. South

SV Darmstadt 98

Goal : Dieter Rudolf (38 / -), Karl-Heinz Seyffer (1 / -) Defense : Walter Bechtold (37/11), Herbert Dörenberg ( 12/1 ), Otto Frey (28 / -), Herbert Pampuch (5 / -), Stefan Sprey (4 / -), Willi Wagner (33/1), Edwin Westenberger ( 38/1 ) Midfield : Manfred Drexler (38/21), Uwe Hahn (35/3), Gerhard Kleppinger ( 21/1 ), Bernhard Metz ( 28/4 ), Dietmar Schabacker ( 22/2 ), Willibald Weiss (30/3) Attack : Peter Cestonaro ( 36/27 ), Rainer Korlatzki ( 10/3 ), Jürgen Krumbein (2 / -), Hans Lindemann ( 27/5 ), Joachim Weber (38/6). (Games / goals) plus an own goal by Michallik (FC Augsburg) Trainer : Lothar Buchmann remained without commitment : Harald Schneider

2. South

1. FC Nuremberg

Goal : Gerhard Hummel (7 / -), Manfred Müller (31 / -) Defense : Bertram Beierlorzer (36 / -), Günter Dämpfling (10 / -), Hans Pausch (35/4), Reinhold Schöllkopf (27/3), Peter Stocker (32 / -), Jürgen Täuber (22/1), Horst Weyerich ( 37/14 ) Midfield : Norbert Eder (35/10), Dieter Lieberwirth ( 38/7 ), Slobodan Petrović (29/4), Peter Sommer ( 15/1 ), Siegfried Susser ( 22/6 ) Attack : Werner Dorok (11 / -), Alfred Steinkirchner (2 / -), Klaus Täuber ( 30/11 ), Hans Walitza ( 27/8 ), Miodrag Živaljević ( 29/5 ). (Games / goals) plus an own goal by Veit (Eintracht Trier) Trainer : Horst Buhtz from 1. – 37. Matchday, Werner Kern left without commitment : Jürgen Bucher , Dietmar Baumann, Erhard Suffel